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“Businesses handling customer financial information have a responsibility to improve software quality and reduce the operational risk of their applications – not only to protect their businesses, but ultimately their customers,” he said.

The report revealed that government applicationscomprise the highest percentage of applications without any input validation violations – 61%. It also found that the financial services industry has 224 input validation violations per app.

Bill Curtis, chief scientist at CAST and author of the Crash report, which will be released next month, said some security experts argue that software security is different from software quality and should be treated separately.

“The Crash report data proves this is false,” he said. “Badly constructed software will not only cause systems to crash, corrupt data and make recovery difficult, it will also leave numerous security holes.”

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